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Opening for Assistant Professor

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English seeks a scholar of African-American and/or Native American literatures and cultures!

Faculty Books: Translating the Dakota

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Professor Christopher Pexa's new book, Translated Nation, reveals how Dakota values persevered through assimilation.

Major Spotlight: Tess Maki

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This senior, who tutors for the Center for Writing, recommends the English class "Protest Literature and Community Action."

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Major Spotlight: Emma Pitzl

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This senior was an intern for University of Minnesota Press and a fiction editor for THE TOWER. She recommends the "American Novel from 1900" class!

PhD student Jenna Dreier in red dress in front of full book shelves

Shakespeare Behind Bars

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PhD candidate Jenna Dreier won the prestigious Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for her research on prison performances of Shakespeare plays.

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Lois Cucullu: Exchanging Ideas, Creating Knowledge

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Retiring professor tapped new technology to spark lively communities of learning.

Regents Professor Patricia Hampl with musician Dan Chouinard at the Weisman Art Museum

Patricia Hampl: Heading Out Without a Map

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After bidding farewell to the U, the decorated memoirist is writing a novel.

Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Sirc at table in classroom smiling at students (visible is one student's head from the back)

Geoffrey Sirc: Starting Where the Students Are

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Retired this year, a master teacher remembers the assignments that inspired the best student writing.

Professor John S. Wright at retirement celebration, at podium with screen behind him showing his photo

John S. Wright: Advocating Change

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The award-winning teacher has held the U, his students, and himself to high standards.

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New Pages

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All the 2019 books so far from faculty and alums!

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Upcoming Events

September 26, 2019

The Shared Spaces of Blackface and Yellowface

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Josephine Lee (English and Asian American Studies) and Sarah Bellamy (Artistic Director, Penumbra Theatre) will talk about the intersecting histories and contemporary dynamics of black and...

October 17, 2019

Natalie Diaz Reading

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Free event! The Creative Writing Program and the Department of English present poet Natalie Diaz as an Edelstein-Keller Visiting Writer. Diaz is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila...

October 21, 2019

Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes: 1517-1798

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Piracy and captivity were banes of the early modern Mediterranean basin. Thousands of men and women and children were enslaved, bought and sold, ransomed or escaped. However, all the...

October 22, 2019

Rivka Galchen Reading

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Free event! Creative Writing and the Department of English present Rivka Galchen as an Edelstein-Keller Visiting Writer. Galchen is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances (2008),...

October 29, 2019

Paul Murray Reading

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The Department of English and the Celtic Studies Fund present Paul Murray. A Dublin native, Murray is the author of the novels Skippy Dies (2010), An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003), and...

November 4, 2019

Danielle Evans Reading

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Free event! Creative Writing and the Department of English present Danielle Evans as an Edelstein-Keller Visiting Writer. Evans is the author of the short-story collection Before You...

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